soger

plural sogers · alternative sojer

1. datedA poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.

   I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.

   a. 1900, “Hanging Johnny”, in Ivan Walton et al., editors, Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, published 2002, page 66

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   The captain called him a "soger," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.

   1834, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast

   Come aft, you lazy soger, an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him […]

   1902, Louis Becke, The Jalasco Brig, page 82

2. Scotlandobsoletepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of soldier, representing nonstandardly-pronounced English, sojer.

   "Bad luck to the whole breed and seed of the sogers!" muttered a fifth villager, between his teeth.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 537

present singular third person sogers · participle present sogering · participle past sogered · past sogered · alternative sojer

1. datedTo shirk; to neglect one's work.